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revealed to us ; her forces not all discovered certainly not all 

 subjugated. Heat gives us, in the steam-engine, hut a fifteenth 

 part of its intrinsic force. Some new mode of transforming 

 energy may utilize a larger percentage. To the triumphs of 

 invention we can set no limits. What new arts, new processes, 

 new materials, new mechanism, will hereafter revolutionize 

 industry, and manifold the mass of human comforts and enjoy- 

 ments, who can tell ? With our country all free ; labor no- 

 where degraded as a badge of servility ; our vast coal fields just 

 beginning to be opened ; our mines of gold, silver, copper, iron, 

 lead, zinc, and other important metals, waiting to yield up 

 their treasures ; our vast agricultural and manufacturing inte- 

 rests rapidly augmenting, and more and more aided by new 

 applications of science ; the broad South, full of running 

 streams and fertile plains, open to manufactures and the me- 

 chanic arts, as well as to agriculture ; our entire population, 

 from lake to gulf, and from ocean to ocean, increasing, from 

 year to year, in homogeneity and community of interests, as 

 well as in numbers, intelligence and wealth ; with ail these 

 bright omens, and others like them, to guide us, how can we 

 fail to discern a future for our country, that needs no imagin- 

 ation to give it brilliancy of coloring, and no spirit of self- 

 complacency to commend it to our admiration. With a pure 

 Christianity and universal education as its moral basis, and 

 intelligent industry, guided by sound science and protected by 

 ofjual laws, as its material foundation, it is a future that may 

 well rejoice the heart of the patriot ; and if, towards any of 

 its elements this institution shall be found to have contributed 

 in some humble degree, well may its graduates, its instructors, 

 and its benefactors, find in the fact encouragement to still more 

 strenuous exertions in behalf ot the science, the industry, the 

 wealth, the power, the world-wide influence for good, of this 

 great, free, re-united and never-more-to-be-divided country. 



